59 m. ago Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport for hours

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, authorities said. The balloons interfered with 30 flights, impacting some 6,000 passengers, according to Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center. Flights resumed […]

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1 hour ago Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Chicago, but details remain unclear

President Donald Trump moved to deploy the National Guard in another city Saturday by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson confirmed that the […]

Society

2 h. ago U.K. government empowering police, weighing limits on protests in wake of Manchester synagogue attack

The move comes a day after police arrested nearly 500 people in the latest protest in Trafalgar Square in support of the proscribed group, Palestine Action

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3 h. ago Hundreds of thousands march across Europe in support of Palestinians

ISTANBUL — Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities marched Sunday in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla’s attempt to reach Gaza. Istanbul held the largest of multiple demonstrations being staged in Turkey. Footage showed crowds walking from the iconic Hagia Sophia to the banks of the Golden Horn, where they were […]

Economics

3 h. ago Father of Manchester synagogue attacker once praised Hamas as ‘God’s men on earth’

Jihad al-Shamie's father, a trauma surgeon, also wrote on Oct. 7, 2023, that the terrorist attack 'was a miracle by all standards" and that it 'proved beyond doubt that Israel will not remain'

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3 h. ago Israel rejects reports Greta Thunberg and others in Hamas flotilla being mistreated in custody

Israel's Foreign Ministry said Swedish activist and 'other detainees refused to expedite their deportation and insisted on prolonging their stay in custody'

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5 h. ago Interview with Noa Tishby: Two years after October 7, Israel has lost the PR war

Advocate says Israel was losing even before Hamas attacked. "Like, why would a country think that it needs to justify its existence, right?"

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19 h. ago Over 600 couples tie the knot in Asuncion, Paraguay’s mass civil wedding

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 600 couples married simultaneously Saturday in Asuncion, Paraguay. Thousands said “I do” in unison as part of a government initiative to make civil weddings more accessible across the country. The campaign, called “United by Love and Protected by Law,” aims to legalize relationships in which couples forgo marriage […]

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22 h. ago GOLDSTEIN: Trump worked on Mideast peace deal while the world mouthed platitudes

The U.S. President's peace deal remains the last best hope for peace and the end of suffering on both sides

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22 h. ago Netanyahu hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza ’in the coming days’

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days,” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on Monday on a new U.S. plan to end the war. In a brief statement late Saturday, Netanyahu said […]

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25 h. ago Sean ’Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers plan to appeal criminal conviction

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ life of luxury atop the hip-hop world vanished with his criminal conviction. He now faces the grim prospect of more years behind bars as his attorneys make plans to appeal. Combs’ carefully cultivated reputation as an affable celebrity entrepreneur, A-list party host and reality TV star came crashing down Friday. The Grammy-winning […]

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27 h. ago CRIME HUNTER: End of the line for monstrous Caribbean serial killer

Caribbean serial killer Kathron "Cuchi" Fortune has been convicted of six murders and assassinations

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27 h. ago Anthony Gismondi: How wineries are forced to adapt to climate change

Many growers struggling to survive in a very different world, where climate change has upended everything they knew to be true about growing grapes and making wine

Society

27 h. ago Max Scherzer, Chris Bassitt left off Blue Jays ALDS roster, roof open for Game1

With Game 1 of their American League Division Series mere hours away, the Blue Jays have announced that their 26-man roster will be without three of the team’s biggest names. While none of the absentees are a surprise, the fact that the team will be without starting pitchers Max Scherzer (who has struggled lately), Chris […]

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28 h. ago Gazans hail Trump ceasefire call as Hamas agrees to free hostages

Khan Yunis (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) — Smoke billowed over Gaza City on Saturday, yet for the first time in months, residents felt a ceasefire was within reach as they welcomed US President Donald Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing. “Trump’s announcement was very surprising to me, as he has always been biased toward Israel,” […]

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28 h. ago Blue Jays great Jose Bautista hoping World Series comes to Toronto

'Their hitting is amazing and also their starting pitching is very exciting,' former slugger says of this year's team

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29 h. ago Israel to implement first phase of Trump plan to end Hamas war

Jerusalem is readying for “the immediate release of all hostages” from Gaza, Prime Minister Netanyahu's office announced

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32 h. ago ‘Hamas is the genocidal entity’: Warfare experts on what the world is getting wrong on Gaza

Former soldiers Richard Kemp and John Spencer say some Western leaders have been fooled by Hamas, for whom civilian casualties is strategy

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44 h. ago Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages but wants to negotiate rest of Trump peace plan

It said the hostages would need to be released ‘in a manner that ensures the cessation of the war and the full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip’

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44 h. ago Trump tells Israel to ‘immediately stop’ bombing Gaza after Hamas agrees to release hostages, negotiate peace

‘We agreed to the plan in principle based on its main points, but its implementation requires negotiations,’ a senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera

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